Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar by Alison Carr Ruth Stacey one who is seeking his

one who is seeking his ‘one true beloved’ through an heroic tally of amorous encounters

so we can read the book as a continuous sequence

dynamic and threatened nature

he encounters many classic wildlife icons and sees for himself the changes coming to these wildernesses

to be a recognition and a discovery for years to come

Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar by Alison Carr Ruth Stacey one who is seeking hisDurham writer Alison Carr looks back to the childhood she lost when she was knocked down by a hit and run driver when she was eight years old. Written with a beautiful melancholy, the poems are constructed around iterative images of lost childhood pleasures, of falling apples and seasonal change, connecting personal feelings of loss with larger narratives of the Fall mythical, anthropological and economic. Smokestack Books